ABSTRACT
The integrative nature of the contextual therapy approach lends itself to a variety of techniques that can and should be used in a clinical setting. We have discussed a number of the primary issues and interventions in the objectifiable dimensions of facts and systemic interactions. It is important to realize that we do not simply give lip service to the impact a psychotherapist can have in working with individuals and families by interventions made in these two dimensions. For instance, many times we become advocates and organizers for patients to get appropriate health care (factual dimension) or point out communication patterns that make change difficult (systemic transaction dimension). In order to integrate the information from the four dimensions, we must make interventions from sources of all four perspectives. However, the interventions in the factual and systemic transaction dimensions are fairly well known and are discussed in other resources. It is our task here to discuss interventions in the individual psychology and relational ethics dimensions because they are less well known and because the contextual perspective is unique in some of the change strategies.
